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Why is America losing millionaires?
It hasn't been a good recession for the rich. The late boom was extraordinarily top-heavy, with the overwhelming majority of economic gains seemingly defying gravity and flowing to the top… Read more »
The week's most interesting Slate stories.
1) "The Depressing Cycle of Racial Accusation: The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. is about neither racial profiling nor playing the race card," by Richard Thompson Ford. Yes, Skip… Read more »
Can Michael Vick make an NFL comeback?
On Thursday, ESPN reported that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will likely reinstate Michael Vick in the coming days. (Reports also indicate that Vick might have to serve a four-to-six-game suspension… Read more »
Hillary Clinton sets her own agenda.
"It's time for Barack Obama to let Hillary Clinton take off her burqa." It's a line that brilliantly managed to belittle our female secretary of state under the guise of… Read more »
Kent Conrad's kooky health care cooperative idea is still the Democrats' best shot at bipartisanship.
When Sen. Kent Conrad first proposed the idea of health care cooperatives back in June, the response was somewhere between Huh? and Huh. But as the debate over reform escalates… Read more »
Does Brett Favre need his biceps tendon to play football?
The Minnesota Vikings are anxiously waiting to hear whether quarterback Brett Favre will join the team this season or stay retired. This summer, the future hall-of-famer had his damaged right… Read more »
Why you can't trust your health insurer.
Blue Dog Democrats are (for reasons Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post and Paul Krugman of the New York Times correctly label "muddled") obstructing House passage of health care reform… Read more »
Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com.
Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com every Monday at 1 p.m. to chat with readers about their romantic, family, financial, and workplace problems. (Read Prudie's Slate columns here.)[more… Read more »
Apple's rumored tablet PC augurs the next phase of the netbook craze.
Today, the Financial Times reported that Apple is planning to release a tablet computer as soon as this September. According to the report, the tablet PC will probably be a… Read more »
A man's home is his constitutional castle.
There are the things you can try when confronted by a cop, and there are the things that you can't—or had better not. Last Memorial Day, I was going in… Read more »
